Crossword-Solution: STRAGGLING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Straggling | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Straggle |
| Straggling | - | a. & n. from Straggle, v. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “STRAGGLING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| sprawling | 21 answers |
| very last | 21 answers |
| Trailing | 28 answers |
| Overdue | 30 answers |
| Behindhand. | 34 answers |
| orderless | 40 answers |
| measured | 44 answers |
| Unhurried | 61 answers |
| Loitering. | 64 answers |
| Late | 76 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with STRAGGLING (5)
When I had last seen this part of Sheen in the daylight it had been a straggling street of comfortable white and red houses, interspersed with abundant shady trees.
Alleys and archways, like so many cesspools, disgorged their offences of smell, and dirt, and life, upon the straggling streets; and the whole quarter reeked with crime, with filth, and misery.
This last time, the escape of the Comtesse de Tournay and her children had been a veritable masterpiece—Blakeney disguised as a hideous old market-woman, in filthy cap and straggling grey locks, was a sight fit to make the gods laugh.
Ten o’clock came, and the noise of vehicles ceased, scattered lights began to wink out, all straggling foot-passengers disappeared, the village betook itself to its slumbers and left the small watcher alone with the silence and the ghosts.
TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA The nocturnal adventures of Gurth were not yet concluded; indeed he himself became partly of that mind, when, after passing one or two straggling houses which stood in the outskirts of the village, he found himself in a deep lane, running between two banks overgrown with hazel and holly, while here and there a dwarf oak flung its arms altogether across the path.
Quotes with STRAGGLING (3)
Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.
It was very still. The tree was tall and straggling. It had thrown its briers over a hawthorn-bush, and its long streamers trailed thick, right down to the grass, splashing the darkness everywhere with great spilt stars, pure white. In bosses of ivory and in large splashed stars the roses gleamed on the darkness of foliage and stems and grass. Paul and Miriam stood close together, silent, and watched. Point after point the steady roses shone out to them, seeming to kindle som…
The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree. I believe this simile largely speaks the truth. The green and budding twigs may represent existing species; and those produced during former years may represent the long succession of extinct species. At each period of growth all the growing twigs have tried to branch out on all sides, and to overtop and kill the surrounding twigs and branches, in the same manner as species and…